T-Mobile Lumia 810 now getting Portico Windows Phone update

Good news for those of you on T-Mobile US with their exclusive Lumia 810 Windows Phone 8 device, starting today at 10AM PST/1PM EST, users can begin to get OS and firmware updates for their phones. This follows a few weeks after T-Mobile rolled out a similar update for their HTC 8X lineup.

The update will bump the OS to version 10211 aka 'Portico' and the firmware to 1249.

The OS update from Microsoft includes new features such as persistent Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot detection, SMS call reject, some Internet Explorer enhancements and other general OS improvements. The firmware from Nokia should include some tweaks to device performance, including auto brightness adjustments, sensitivity and other system settings.

Nokia commented to us on the update with the following:

"A Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 software update providing performance enhancements for the Nokia Lumia 820 and Nokia Lumia 920 – as well as the Nokia Lumia 810 in the US - has started rolling out over the air to first operators. Delivery will continue in a phased manner over the coming weeks and is expected to be complete by mid-March. People will receive a notification on their phone when the update is available for them to download."

Of course users can manually check for the update by heading into Settings –> Phone Update –> Check for Updates to get the over-the-air (OTA) system upgrade. The device will then download the OS with firmware and install both over a 15-20 minute period (your experience may vary, of course).

Sound off in comments or in our forums with your experience and thoughts on the update!

Nice how many of them have meanings too -- Mango: sweeter than Apple, Tango: it takes two to tango (referring to the two memory variants), Apollo (lift-off). Portico -- maybe 'an addition'? (Source: my own deductions)

yea my bad, got caught up in my own lil fun of it... and thats some good deductions.... just have to deduce no-do and portico... no-do is obvious... portico as an addition makes sense, and you could look at it as extra support on a already strong elegant structure... (it's ok let the genius soak in haha)

Don't know if it's just me, but it seems like right when I was about to update my 810, the WPCentral live tile started disappearing and reappearing. After my phone rebooted itself to complete the update, it continued the same problem. Anyone else seeing this as well?? Even the ones that don't have an 810??

This update is still not avalable in Thailand, I know many new lunia 920 owners that are unhappy with the cameras daytime photos. Nokia, Microsoft why do you like to shoot yourself in the foot, Pull your finger out and give these people a reason to recomend the phone to there friends.

"The update was downloaded, but couldn't be opened. (801882e8)"
I tried twice and got the error both times after hanging for a while at 99% of "Preparing to install" step fallowing succesfull download.
What gives?

Yes I got the low memory notification during upgrade but so did my son that also has Lumia 810 and his installed fine. I tried one more time after rebooting to no avail. I ended up resetting my phone back to factory and was able to install Partico fine than. As a side benefit I got to see how restore from backup works in WP8.
Here are a few observation from the whole ordeal for a benefit of others:
- 8GB is just not enough internal storage. I only had the phone for a couple of weeks and I was down to about 940MB at the time of the failed update. I only had maybe 40 apps and all my music, photos and videos are stored in SD card. There is a suspicious folder called ‘other’ that takes 2GB for me. No clue what goes in it but it just keeps growing even if you delete apps. I think something is not getting cleaned up in there
-I had issue recording to my SanDisk Ultra 64GB (SDSDQUA-064G-A11A) microSDXC Class 10 microSDHC prior to update. It would skip frames when recording. After update it seems fine so far. I don't know if it's the update itself or the reset of the phone thou. I saw others reporting issues with the 64GB card on Nokia forum so I’m glad this is fixed, at least it seems for me.
-if you want to restore from backup when setting up your phone from scratch you can’t skip login with your Microsoft Account during initial setup. You have to do it there. You will get an option to select backup to restore from. If you add your Microsoft Account later it does not give you that option and I did not see that option in Backup setting either. I ended up restoring twice for the reason.
-not all setting are backed up, you will have to redo your start screen by adding live tiles manually. I though they would appear after downloading corresponding apps (which backup stores) but they did not.
-there are some apps there do not restore and appear in the downloads list without name nor icon and it just says Downloading apps, Attention required, Tap here. I have about 14 of these left to figure out. Tapping and retrying does not work. I figured out some. There are things like lenses, maps etc., things that you download from within apps and only from there you can reinstall these.

Well, I've had my update today since around 5pm, which took about an hour, no problems. The WIFI problem is fixed, the screen looks even sharper than before and it seems to be a bit snappier too! Love my 810! Overall, very pleased with MS, Nokia and Tmob!

Same problem as Dzik above. Low memory like 10 times. I had to uninstall a bunch of apps to get it to install. I have a 16 GB SD card and all my music, videos and pics there. No more apps than the average person I think. What's up with internal storage on this thing????? I've had this error before on my phone prior to the update, plugged into my computer and checked via file explorer with files and folders in hidden and it only shows media folders. Only thing stored on internal memory is ringtones. I think this needs addressing.